Barbara Lindsey | March 17, 2009
I spent November 5th, election night in the United States, with about a thousand people. I wasn’t downtown in some large convention hall with a group of my friends. In fact, I had never met any of these folks before that night. They hailed from all over the world and the one thing that connected [...]
Barbara Lindsey | March 12, 2009
After a long hiatus we’ve started up our podcasts again by recording a fascinating conversation with Silvia Tolisano, a former Spanish and German teacher, who now supports the global studies curriculum of San Jose Episcopal Day School as their technology integration specialist. Her blog, Langwitches: The Magic of Learning through Technology received two 2008 Edublogger [...]
The wATw Podcast: An Interview with Silvia Tolisano [ 59:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1345)Kevin Gaugler | December 28, 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, I wish to present a list of my top ten tools for language educators in 2008. These are tools that have become part of my regular routine as a technology-oriented language educator. I might even venture to say that these tools have been indispensable to me in 2008. Lingro [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 3, 2008
In this post, I’d like to expand upon the conversation we had with Bill Ferriter and discuss further how online social interactions between peers has shifted notions of traditional peer-review in higher education. If you have a tenure-track position or hope to have a tenure-track position at an institution of higher education, chances are you [...]
Barbara Lindsey | September 29, 2008
A funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century. Information silos crumbled. The world, Thomas Friedman asserts in his highly popular book, is flat. In his book and his talks, Friedman argues that a complementary chain of events initiated in the mid-nineties—the development of open standards, browser-based access to the Internet, the laying [...]